Michelangelo Influence

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni made contributions that helped make the time period of the 1500’s artfully beautiful. He was never interested in school as a young child and spent his time overseeing painters working at the church and imitating the drawings. His father took notice and believed he had talent, so at the age of 13 he decided to put him into the Florentine painter’s workshop, which he was shown the fresco technique. With just a year at the workshop a chance that most could only dream of was open to him, to move into the palace of Florentine. He moved to the palace under the ruler Lorenzo the Magnificent to learn about classical sculpture in which he was allowed to study corpses for an understanding into framework of the human body. These influences allowed Michelangelo to develop his own style known as a muscular precision and reality.
At the Academia Gallery, lies the most famous statue in Florence, Michelangelo’s sculpture, David. He spent three years creating this artwork between 1501 and 1504. Michelangelo was only 26, but he was well known to be the most famous and wealthiest artist. David tells a story of a battle between David and Goliath, a champion of the Philistines. Goliath confronts the Israelites to bring forth a champion of …show more content…
It was a scene that comprised of God and Adam. God is portrayed as an old man, though a well-built man with grey hair and long beard. He wears a weightless robe leaving his arms and legs visible versus the regular portrayal of God in royal garments giving the sensation of him in a condition relating to man. Adam, representing the life of mankind, is tranquil who unwillingly reacts to God’s touch. This correspondence of one form to the other seems to underscore the larger idea of Man corresponding to God; that is; it seems to reflect the idea that Man has been created in the image and likeness of God